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...POPULATION BOMB in 1968 predicted a severe world-wide crisis sometime during 1970-1985 because of overpopulation. But despite many famines and much suffering in the last decade, Paul Ehrlich has thus far been wrong, and few economists expect such a crisis in the next decade. His Malthusian expectations of too little food for too many people are valid; population growth--without agricultural innovations would ultimately outstrip food supply. Maybe the world squeaked by because Ehrlich's prophecies helped warn nations to limit their ranks; and maybe the world's response to Ehrlich's dire forebodings improved conditions--but probably...
This year Ehrlich is at it again. In Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, he argues that the destruction of species will spell disaster for mankind. Yet, though he again brings forth valid and enlightening points, Armageddon still doesn't seem near. Man may cause the death of other species, but the human race's sense of self-preservation will probably stop it from committing mass suicide...
...Cabinet of Prime Minister Menachem Begin quickly rejected the proposal, particularly objecting to the call for a Palestinian state. Privately, however, a number of Israeli officials acknowledged that the plan seemed to represent some changes in Saudi thinking. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich described the initiative as being "a turning point to a certain extent" Begin was on vacations and offered no commont on the Saudi proposal. But it is a safe guess that when he visits Washington on Sept. 9 he will emphasize to Ronald Reagan that he would prefer to stick to the Camp David format and bypass...
...Paul R. Ehrlich Crested Butte, Colo...
...most Israelis, the crime statistics are less troubling symptoms of social malaise than the emigration figures, which seem to fly in the face of Israel's very purpose. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich somewhat hyperbolically described emigration last December as "the most important national problem." The Zionist goal of "ingathering of the exiles" was for decades complemented by the exiles' dream of aliya -"going up" to the homeland. The opposite phenomenon of yerida - "going down" to the outside